Wanted to warn everybody - Wm & Penny Kresl [kresl@elknet.net] had a virus on her machine yesterday. It is a fairly new one, so I am cutting and pasting the info she sent me on it her in case anybody besides me received the virus. (The good news is that I deleted it the minute I saw it). Here is the data she sent: Tell others..Do not open. I got rid of it now. I think it only went to about 5 incoming messages, but unfortunately about 3 of those were mailing lists. See message below. Again, I am very sorry but hey..it happens, and I thought it was reliable.... Penny ---------------------------REGARDING THE ATTACHMENT TO MY MAIL THAT WAS INADVERTENTLY INFECTED----------------------- DO NOT OPEN ANY FILE ATTACHMENTS. The ATTACHMENT is a RECENT (APRIL 12th) dangerous WORM that scatters e-mail attachments to others, it also parks a TROJAN program on every computer that has opened that attachment that will intercept ALL KEYPRESSES and E-MAILS those via the internet to a HACKER identified only as: "1d8l1@mailandews.com" Here is a link to the AVP WEB SITE with info about this WORM/TROJAN called "BADTRANS" from Central Command (maker of several ANTI-VIRUS Products): http://support.avx.com/cgi-bin/command.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_ref no=0 10412-000008 You can tell if your computer has been infected by doing a START > FIND >FILES (or by looking in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder) for the following files (referenced in that article): KERN32.EXE INETD.EXE HKK32.EXE My husband downloaded and used the FREE ANTIVIR Personal Edition virus scanner that FOUND THIS WORM (others did not catch it): http://www.free-av.com/index.html You WILL still need to manually FIX some WINDOWS SETTINGS referenced in that article. DO NOT OPEN ANY FILE ATTACHMENTS. end of note: Vicki